The mission traveled 3.86 billion miles total to Bennu and back. The spacecraft dropped the sample capsule — containing an estimated 8.8 ounces of asteroid rocks and soil — from a distance of ...

Released from the OSIRIS-REx mothership four hours earlier, the 110-pound 31-inch-wide sample return capsule, loaded with a half-pound of rocks and soil collected in 2020 from an asteroid known as ...

The capsule, blackened from its fiery reentry through ... and Lauretta is already dreaming of a sample return mission from a comet. Sponsor Message But first, he's going to pore over the bits ...

The capsule holding the asteroid sample shortly after touching down in the desert on September 24 at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range. NASA / Keegan Barber A capsule ...

are larger and more transparent than hard-shelled capsules. They can have a liquid, suspension (for example, active ingredient suspended in oil), or semisolid on the inside. Tablets, in contrast ...

Abbas also sees potential in using this capsule for combination therapies. Cardiovascular disease, for example, often requires patients to take a combination of aspirin, beta blockers and ...